It's strange to me that Amazon would seemingly (based on the article) feel the need to stack rank, and put employees in positions where they are either encouraged to leave, and/or on a path to involuntary termination. This is a company with notoriously high turnover already, with lots of reports of a toxic work environment. Couldn't they just pause hiring and wait for headcount to organically decline to target numbers? With reported 20% annual turnover, that really shouldn't take very long...